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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago

US downgraded in democracy index as press freedom concerns grow

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago
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“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report.
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  • yucandu@lemmy.world
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    It’s been at the bottom of most western nations in all the freedom indexes and democracy lists for a long time now.

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    The US is a fascist dictatorship, what democracy?

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    Ok, CNN. The irony is laughable.

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    The actual report

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    Lol, the US isn’t democratic.

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      We weren’t democratic even before the fascist party took power.

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      It used to be a flawed democracy, now it’s a flawed dictatorship.

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        It’s “a democracy” in that the rich old white dude at the top gets swapped out every few years.

        But any analysis of government policy vs what regular people want shows exactly no correlation. This isn’t even new. Sure it’s gotten even more egregious lately, but it has always been an oligarchy or plutocracy at best.

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          Corrupt as fuuuuck.

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            Umm excuse me, “corruption” is offensive, the correct term is “lobbying”.

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    “Concerns”

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    All of our media is owned by Zionist billionaires. It’s mostly just the Ellison family. Concern was years ago, at this point it’s just full on media capture. The press barons reign supreme in America; one more freedom gone.

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      The year 322: an important marker of the start of Athens’ transition from democracy to plutocracy.

      https://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/demosthe.html

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